On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 04:27, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:11:54 -0400 > > Jim Tarvid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>On Friday 07 June 2002 08:55 pm, you wrote: > >> > >>>Hi All, > >>> > >>>I'm new to Mandrake, having just installed 8.2 from the 3 CD download set. > >>>I'm trying to get Postfix to send my mail from Kmail. Having edited > >>>/etc/postfix/aliases I tried to run postaliases, but got a message saying > >>>that command not found. I ran "whereis postaliases" and sure enough it is > >>>not installed. Which package do I have to install to get postaliases? > >>> > >>>jerry > >> > >>try postalias > > > > > > Thanks! Of course, that worked. > > > > > >>[root@corinna root]# urpmf postalias > >>postfix:/usr/lib/postfix/postalias > >>postfix:/usr/sbin/postalias > >>postfix:/usr/share/doc/postfix-20010228/html/postalias.1.html > >>postfix:/usr/share/man/man1/postalias.1.bz2 > >> > >>Jim Tarvid > > Ok...but "why" did it work cause I've never seen that before and I can't > help but be very interested it what it did and why it did it. > > Mark >
Well, when you edit the file /etc/postfix/aliases you need to rebuild the file /etc/postfix/aliases.db the database file. Running "postalias /etc/postfix/alias.db" rebuilds that file. HTH > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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